Common Excuses Lyrics

You think you can measure up with the world

Definitely your battles were for a fair

Resource and wealth allocation you'd surely

Have had many enemies to confront yourself with

But no one never told you that

The privilege of showing your own personal ideas

Often payed a toll with lives

That now allow you to live peacefully

One flag upon your

Hat tired to wave

An emblem on a uniform too

Hard to wear

A shame you are going to have to

Handle deeply

Agonizing regrets got in

Those lives

Lives you had been looking after for long as

A tyrant

You had them to do

What you wanted

Antiapartheid representatives

Mandela and his courage

The black panthers against police

The fight for quitting the abuses

The hemp in the prohibition age

Used to get the ruling class incomes fatter

Secrets on Vietnam war in the seventies

Concealed by the US government to the press